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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Dec.  8,  1864.— Referred  to 
Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  the  Chair,] 


MESSAGE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Richmond,  Va.,  Dec.  7,  1864. 

To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Ueprestntatives  : 

I  herewith  transmit,  for  your  consideration,  a  communication  from 
the  Secretary  of  War,  covering  an  estimate  "  of  funds  required  to 
meet  our  treaty  obligations  to  the  Indian  Nations,  for  the  period  end- 
ing June  30th,  1865." 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 


Confederate  States  of  America, 
War  Dfpartn 
Richmond,  December 


America,  ^ 
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7,  1864.  ) 


To  the  Presider.t  of  the  Confederate  States  : 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  herewith  an  estimate,  prepared  by 
the  Comoiissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  of  funds  required  to  meet  our 
treaty  obligations  to  the  Indian  Nations,  for  the  period  ending  June 
SUth,*  isri5. 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 

Secretary  of  War. 


ESTIMATE  OF  APPROPRIATIONS  required  to  comply  with 
2'reaty  Stipuhtio?is  entered  into  hdwsen  tho  Confederate  States  and  cer- 
tain Indians  Tribes  : 

Creek  Treaty,  July   10th,   1861. 

For  perpetual  annijities  from  July  1,  180-1,  to  June  30,  1S65,  under 
article  4 1 ,  to  be  paid  to  the  treasurers  of  the  nation,         $24,o0(^   DO 

For  interest  from  July  1,  1864,  to  June  30,  !865,  under 
article  41,  on  the  sum  of  $2i!(),()()l)  in  the  treasury  of 
the  United  Siatea,  and  -which  should  have  been  in- 
vested for  educational  purposes,  to  be  paid  to  tlie  treas- 
urers of  the  nation,  10,000  00 

For  annual  provision  for  education  from  July  1,  1864, 
to  June  30,  1865,  under  article  41,  to  be  paid  to  tho 
treasurers  of  the  nation,  1,0'^0  00 

For  annual  provision,  under  article  4 1 ,  for  wagon  makers, 
blacksmiths,  shops,  iron,  steel  and  agricultural  pur- 
poses, from  July  1,  1864,  to  June  30,  1865,  to  be  paid 
to  the  treasurers  of  the  nation,  5,430  00 

$40,920  00 

Choctaw  and  Chickasaw   Treaty,  July  12th,  1861. 

For  permanent  annuities  for  the  Choctaws  and  other  amounts,  pay- 
ments and  allowances,  from  July  I,  1864,  to  June  30,  1885,  under 
article  53',  to  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  nation,        $10,520  00 

For  interest  from  July  I,  186-1,  to  June  30,  1865,  on  tho 
sum  of  $500,000,  under  article  53,  held  in  trust  for  the 
Choctaws,  under  treaty  of  June  22,  1855,  to  be  paid 
to  the  treasurer  of  the  nation,  25,000  00 

For  permanent  annuity,  under  article  56,  payable  to  the 
Chickasaws,  and  interest  on  the  investments  and  funds 
of  the  Chickasaws  in  tlie  treasury  of  the  United  States, 
from  July  1,  1864,  to  June  30,  1865,  to  be  paid  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  nation,  25,606  89 


S61,126  89 

Cherokee  Treaty,  October  7th,  1861. 

For  interest  from  July  1,  1864,  to  June  30,  1865,  under  article  AS, 
on  $5,000  of  the  Cherokee  orphan  fund  uninvested  by  the  United 
States,  and  on  stocks  amounting  to  $10,561.39  of  the  tlnited  States 
and  States  not  of  this  Confederacy,  forming  parts  of  Cherokee 
national  and  school  funds,  to  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
nation,  $893  68 


Osage  Treaty,  October  2d,  1861. 

For  annual  purchase  of  clothing  and  other  articles   to  be  distributed 
to  the  Osages,  during  the  year  1865,  under  article  39, 

SU),000  00 


Reserve  Indian  Treaty,  August  12th,   18G1. 

For  rations  of  provisions  to  be  furnished  the  Wichitaa  and  other  re- 
serve Indians,  UQder  contract  from  December  1,  1864,  to  June  30, 
1865,  $75,000  00 

To  meet  the  incidental  expenses  of  the  public  service 
within  the  Indian  tribes,  from  December  31,  1864,  to 
June  30,  1865,  $75,000  00 


Kecapitulation. 

On  account  of  the  Creeks,  $40,920  00 
On  account  of  the  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws,        61,126  89 

On  account  of  the  Cherokees,  893  C8 

On  account  of  the  Osages,  10,0110  00 

On  account  of  the  Reserve  Indians,  75,000  00 

<)n  account  of  the  contingencies,  75,000  00 


$262,940  57 


Confederate  Statf.s  of  America,  War  Department,  ^ 

Office,  of  Indian  Jffnirs,  > 

Richmond,  Va  ,  December  5,  lc'i64.  ) 


Hon.  James  A,  Seddon,  Secretary  of  War  : 

Sir:  I  have  been  unable  to  submit  theso  papers  at  an  earlier  day^ 
as  1  have  but  recently  returned  to  ilichmond  from  the  Indian  country. 
Very  respeclfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

S.  S.-  SCOTT, 

Commissioner y  dc. 


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